WORLD WAR I, WORLD WAR II, COLD WAR

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  • Assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

  • Germany invades Belgium; Britain declares war

  • First Battle of the Marne

  • Battle of Verdun

  • Battle of the Somme begins

  • U.S. declares war on Germany

  • Germany signs armistice

  • Treaty of Versailles signed

  • Germany invades Poland (WWII begins)

  • Germany invades Soviet Union. Italy declares war on Soviet Union.

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

  • United States and Britain declare war on Japan.

  • Battle of Midway

  • D-Day (Allied invasion of Normandy)

  • World War II ends; Germany divided into Occupation Zones

  • Germany surrenders

  • Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • Japan surrenders

  • Berlin Blockade

  • Death of Stalin; Nikita Khrushchev takes over

  • Suez Canal Crisis

  • Space Race Begins; USSR launches Sputnik I

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion; Berlin Wall Goes Up

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • President John F. Kennedy assasinated

  • Brezhnev replaces Khrushchev

  • End of Space Race; US spacecraft Apollo 11 lands on moon

  • Iranian Hostage Crisis

  • Chernobyl disaster

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • USSR ends; Boris Yeltsin becomes president of Russia